I have not seen a plot this ridiculous for some time

BLOT: (23 Aug 2011 - 07:29:38 PM)

I have not seen a plot this ridiculous for some time

Without detailed commentary, I give you the plot write up of Brent Reilly's Regolith, as seen on Amazon.com:

When Spacewatch Director Henry Jackson, using his revolutionary lunar laser ranger, suspects the largest asteroid in 65 million years will strike America during the 2012 presidential campaign, he must figure out how to save a skeptical public from mile-high tsunamis, pressure blasts, sterilizing heat, record earthquakes, and a trillion tons of falling molten rock called regolith. Facing global hysteria that cripples society, he ends up with only ten weeks to evacuate the entire country to special asteroid shelters his son built near the poles. Jackson, famous for his plans to launch capsules from the highest point on Earth; converting the largest near-Earth asteroid into a space port; mining $5 quadrillion worth of lunar helium3; soft-landing trillion-dollar metallic asteroids on the Moon; optimizing Mars; and bulking up and re-orbiting the 20 largest moons into Goldilocks orbits to allow humanity to grow to over 100 billion people, then loses his escape plane, stranding his family near Ground Zero, where they must improvise to survive.

I almost want to read it just to see if it lives up to a plot description that would not have been out of place in a 1950s Science Fiction double-feature matinee down at the local drive-in. And I do dig some 1950s ridiculous SF...

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